Question 1

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding our current understanding of linguistic development?

Accepted Answer

A) linguistic development is a simple process of imitation. 
B) every human is born with a language acquisition device. 
C) there appear to be sensitive periods for language acquisition. 
D) a child will never speak if he/she doesn't have expressive language by the age of seven. 
A) linguistic development is a simple process of imitation. 
B) every human is born with a language acquisition device. 
C) there appear to be sensitive periods for language acquisition. 
D) a child will never speak if he/she doesn't have expressive language by the age of seven.

Question 2

Piaget claimed that an adolescent's overly optimistic idealism about the world is due to ____ during the formal operations stage.

Accepted Answer

A) egocentrism 
B) irreversibility 
C) an incompletely developed ability to think abstractly 
D) centration 
A) egocentrism 
B) irreversibility 
C) an incompletely developed ability to think abstractly 
D) centration

Question 3

In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as a(n):

Accepted Answer

A) organized group of similar thoughts or actions. 
B) set of motor skills that preschoolers develop. 
C) lifestyle or family pattern. 
D) mental picture of oneself. 
A) organized group of similar thoughts or actions. 
B) set of motor skills that preschoolers develop. 
C) lifestyle or family pattern. 
D) mental picture of oneself.

Question 4

Which one of the following is the best example of pragmatics in language?

Accepted Answer

A) Julia waits until her friend has finished talking before she begins to speak. 
B) Morris understands the underlying meaning of "A stitch in time saves nine." 
C) Sheena knows that the plural of man is men, not mans. 
D) Isaiah recognizes the double meanings in many of the puns he hears. 
A) Julia waits until her friend has finished talking before she begins to speak. 
B) Morris understands the underlying meaning of "A stitch in time saves nine." 
C) Sheena knows that the plural of man is men, not mans. 
D) Isaiah recognizes the double meanings in many of the puns he hears.

Question 5

Three of the following teachers are using scaffolding to help their students learn.Which one is not necessarily providing scaffolding?

Accepted Answer

A) Ms.Applegate gives her students a structure to follow when they write their first essay. 
B) Mr.Prakash teaches a backhand tennis swing by gently guiding each student through the correct movement a few times. 
C) Ms.Chen gives her class some hints about how to solve an especially difficult word problem. 
D) Mr.Donaldson takes his students on a field trip to the art museum. 
A) Ms.Applegate gives her students a structure to follow when they write their first essay. 
B) Mr.Prakash teaches a backhand tennis swing by gently guiding each student through the correct movement a few times. 
C) Ms.Chen gives her class some hints about how to solve an especially difficult word problem. 
D) Mr.Donaldson takes his students on a field trip to the art museum.

Question 6

What branch of philosophy inspired Piaget's work with children?

Accepted Answer

A) phenomenology 
B) epistemology 
C) etiology 
D) cognitive psychology 
A) phenomenology 
B) epistemology 
C) etiology 
D) cognitive psychology

Question 7

Which one of the following sentences reflects overregularization in a child's speech? The words in question are underlined.

Accepted Answer

A) I ain't going to school today. 
B) Are you gonna go on the field trip? 
C) The sheeps are in the meadow. 
D) He don't know anything. 
A) I ain't going to school today. 
B) Are you gonna go on the field trip? 
C) The sheeps are in the meadow. 
D) He don't know anything.

Question 8

According to newer research on cognitive development, which of the following statements is true regarding Piaget's interpretations?

Accepted Answer

A) Piaget likely underestimated the abilities of infants and preschoolers 
B) Piaget likely overestimated the abilities of infants and preschoolers 
C) Piaget likely underestimated the abilities of adolescents 
D) Piaget likely overestimated the abilities of elementary school students 
A) Piaget likely underestimated the abilities of infants and preschoolers 
B) Piaget likely overestimated the abilities of infants and preschoolers 
C) Piaget likely underestimated the abilities of adolescents 
D) Piaget likely overestimated the abilities of elementary school students

Question 9

Which of the following is the best description of a sensitive period in development?

Accepted Answer

A) a stage of development where children display little emotional regulation. 
B) a particular age for the attainment of developmental tasks. 
C) an age range where environmental influences are likely to have the most effect. 
D) an age range where children are likely to have neurological development. 
A) a stage of development where children display little emotional regulation. 
B) a particular age for the attainment of developmental tasks. 
C) an age range where environmental influences are likely to have the most effect. 
D) an age range where children are likely to have neurological development.

Question 10

Choose a particular grade level and discuss three important implications of Piaget's theory for teaching students at this grade level.State your three points both in abstract terms and in terms of specific educational practices you would employ.

Accepted Answer

Students' responses to this item are lik

Question 11

According to your textbook, formal operational egocentrism is:

Accepted Answer

A) the notion that all individuals should achieve formal operations in adulthood 
B) the ability to think about oneself in concrete ways 
C) the inability to separate one's abstract thoughts from those of others 
D) the ability to solve personal problems in abstract ways 
A) the notion that all individuals should achieve formal operations in adulthood 
B) the ability to think about oneself in concrete ways 
C) the inability to separate one's abstract thoughts from those of others 
D) the ability to solve personal problems in abstract ways

Question 12

Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball.His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:

Accepted Answer

A) concrete operations. 
B) accommodation. 
C) cognitive structure. 
D) assimilation. 
A) concrete operations. 
B) accommodation. 
C) cognitive structure. 
D) assimilation.

Question 13

Linda's teacher shows her a small ball of clay.He then squashes the ball so it looks like a pancake and asks Linda which has more clay, the ball or the pancake.Linda replies that they both have the same amount."How do you know?" asks her teacher."Look," says Linda, "I can roll the pancake back into the same ball it was before." Linda's response shows:

Accepted Answer

A) formal operational logic. 
B) a distinction between physical and psychological events. 
C) reversibility. 
D) transductive reasoning. 
A) formal operational logic. 
B) a distinction between physical and psychological events. 
C) reversibility. 
D) transductive reasoning.

Question 14

Which one of the following statements best illustrates a universal in development?

Accepted Answer

A) Piaget proposed that formal operational thought is characterized by an ability to think abstractly about a wide variety of topics. 
B) Contemporary theorists have derived the concept "cognitive apprenticeship" from Vygotsky's theory of development. 
C) Young children show similar patterns in their language development regardless of the specific language that they learn. 
D) Piaget neglected to consider the influence of prior knowledge and experience on children's ability to think logically. 
A) Piaget proposed that formal operational thought is characterized by an ability to think abstractly about a wide variety of topics. 
B) Contemporary theorists have derived the concept "cognitive apprenticeship" from Vygotsky's theory of development. 
C) Young children show similar patterns in their language development regardless of the specific language that they learn. 
D) Piaget neglected to consider the influence of prior knowledge and experience on children's ability to think logically.

Question 15

Which of the following pairs of students best illustrates the idea of student diversity with respect to different dialects?

Accepted Answer

A) Telly was born in Greece, and Fritz was born in Germany.Fritz has an easier time learning English than Telly does because German uses the same alphabet that English does, whereas Greek does not. 
B) Joe speaks English as it is spoken in an isolated Northern community; Kyle speaks the English of inner-city Toronto. 
C) Margaret speaks English fluently; Anna knows fewer words and speaks in simpler sentences because she immigrated from Romania only six months ago. 
D) Elena speaks Spanish and Maria speaks Portuguese-two languages with similar vocabulary and syntax because of their shared Latin roots. 
A) Telly was born in Greece, and Fritz was born in Germany.Fritz has an easier time learning English than Telly does because German uses the same alphabet that English does, whereas Greek does not. 
B) Joe speaks English as it is spoken in an isolated Northern community; Kyle speaks the English of inner-city Toronto. 
C) Margaret speaks English fluently; Anna knows fewer words and speaks in simpler sentences because she immigrated from Romania only six months ago. 
D) Elena speaks Spanish and Maria speaks Portuguese-two languages with similar vocabulary and syntax because of their shared Latin roots.

Question 16

According to developmentalists, maturation refers to the:

Accepted Answer

A) developmental changes that are controlled in large part by heredity. 
B) changes related specifically to children's physical development. 
C) changes related specifically to children's emotional development. 
D) changes that reflect increasingly appropriate social behaviour. 
A) developmental changes that are controlled in large part by heredity. 
B) changes related specifically to children's physical development. 
C) changes related specifically to children's emotional development. 
D) changes that reflect increasingly appropriate social behaviour.

Question 17

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language.Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief.Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learning language?

Accepted Answer

A) Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such as similar ways of forming negatives. 
B) Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older. 
C) Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age. 
D) People in the same community learn the same language despite very different experiences with that language. 
A) Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such as similar ways of forming negatives. 
B) Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older. 
C) Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age. 
D) People in the same community learn the same language despite very different experiences with that language.

Question 18

At which one of Piaget's stages will you first see the following behaviour: Lorne can correctly answer the question, "If all flegs are blats, and if all blats are dulms, are all flegs also dulms?"

Accepted Answer

A) preoperational 
B) formal operational 
C) sensorimotor 
D) concrete operational 
A) preoperational 
B) formal operational 
C) sensorimotor 
D) concrete operational

Question 19

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' cognitive development.Which statement is inaccurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Some children in a first-grade classroom may show concrete operational thought, whereas others may show signs of preoperational thought. 
B) Students with physical and sensory challenges may have less general knowledge of the world, limiting their ability to relate new experiences to things they already know. 
C) When eighth graders are asked to separate and control variables in a problem about fishing, those who have often fished with family or friends will be more successful than students who have never fished. 
D) Rehearsal is more commonly observed in children who live in developing countries than in children who live in highly urbanized and industrialized ones. 
A) Some children in a first-grade classroom may show concrete operational thought, whereas others may show signs of preoperational thought. 
B) Students with physical and sensory challenges may have less general knowledge of the world, limiting their ability to relate new experiences to things they already know. 
C) When eighth graders are asked to separate and control variables in a problem about fishing, those who have often fished with family or friends will be more successful than students who have never fished. 
D) Rehearsal is more commonly observed in children who live in developing countries than in children who live in highly urbanized and industrialized ones.

Question 20

Dirk knows more as a tenth grader than he did as a first grader.One result of this increased knowledge base is that Dirk:

Accepted Answer

A) can use rehearsal more effectively. 
B) is more easily distracted. 
C) can more easily understand new information. 
D) is more likely to get the different things he knows confused with one another. 
A) can use rehearsal more effectively. 
B) is more easily distracted. 
C) can more easily understand new information. 
D) is more likely to get the different things he knows confused with one another.

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding our current understanding of linguistic development?

Piaget claimed that an adolescent's overly optimistic idealism about the world is due to ____ during the formal operations stage.

In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as a(n):

Which one of the following is the best example of pragmatics in language?

Three of the following teachers are using scaffolding to help their students learn.Which one is not necessarily providing scaffolding?

What branch of philosophy inspired Piaget's work with children?

Which one of the following sentences reflects overregularization in a child's speech? The words in question are underlined.

According to newer research on cognitive development, which of the following statements is true regarding Piaget's interpretations?

Which of the following is the best description of a sensitive period in development?

Choose a particular grade level and discuss three important implications of Piaget's theory for teaching students at this grade level.State your three points both in abstract terms and in terms of specific educational practices you would employ.

According to your textbook, formal operational egocentrism is:

Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball.His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:

Which one of the following statements best illustrates a universal in development?

Which of the following pairs of students best illustrates the idea of student diversity with respect to different dialects?

According to developmentalists, maturation refers to the:

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language.Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief.Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learning language?

At which one of Piaget's stages will you first see the following behaviour: Lorne can correctly answer the question, "If all flegs are blats, and if all blats are dulms, are all flegs also dulms?"

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' cognitive development.Which statement is inaccurate?

Dirk knows more as a tenth grader than he did as a first grader.One result of this increased knowledge base is that Dirk:

Educational Psychology and Teacher Decision Making

Personal, Social, and Moral Development

Individual and Group Differences

Learning and Behaviour Processes

Learning and Cognitive Processes

Knowledge Construction

Social Cognitive Views of Learning

Motivation, Affect, and Cognition

Instructional Strategies

Creating and Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment

Instructional Assessment

Describing Relationships with Correlation Coefficients

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Exam 2: Cognitive and Linguistic Development

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding our current understanding of linguistic development?

Piaget claimed that an adolescent's overly optimistic idealism about the world is due to ____ during the formal operations stage.

In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as a(n):

Which one of the following is the best example of pragmatics in language?

Three of the following teachers are using scaffolding to help their students learn.Which one is not necessarily providing scaffolding?

What branch of philosophy inspired Piaget's work with children?

Which one of the following sentences reflects overregularization in a child's speech? The words in question are underlined.

According to newer research on cognitive development, which of the following statements is true regarding Piaget's interpretations?

Which of the following is the best description of a sensitive period in development?

Choose a particular grade level and discuss three important implications of Piaget's theory for teaching students at this grade level.State your three points both in abstract terms and in terms of specific educational practices you would employ.

According to your textbook, formal operational egocentrism is:

Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball.His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:

Which one of the following statements best illustrates a universal in development?

Which of the following pairs of students best illustrates the idea of student diversity with respect to different dialects?

According to developmentalists, maturation refers to the:

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language.Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief.Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learning language?

At which one of Piaget's stages will you first see the following behaviour: Lorne can correctly answer the question, "If all flegs are blats, and if all blats are dulms, are all flegs also dulms?"

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' cognitive development.Which statement is inaccurate?

Dirk knows more as a tenth grader than he did as a first grader.One result of this increased knowledge base is that Dirk:

Educational Psychology and Teacher Decision Making

Personal, Social, and Moral Development

Individual and Group Differences

Learning and Behaviour Processes

Learning and Cognitive Processes

Knowledge Construction

Social Cognitive Views of Learning

Motivation, Affect, and Cognition

Instructional Strategies

Creating and Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment

Instructional Assessment

Describing Relationships with Correlation Coefficients

Filters